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Citation: Atkins, W.R.G. 1938 The disappearance of Zostera marina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 23: 207-210


Number of Pages: 4

Volume Part: 1

Keywords: Biogeography, British Isles, Climate, Disease, Ecology, Flora, Marine, Parasite, Population, Temperature, Zostera

Abstract: The paper discusses and refutes possible linkages between the reduction, due to disease, of populations of Zostera marina throughout the British Isles, and either hours of sunshine or the extinction coefficient of the water.